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Everett Olsen Farm Photo

Here’s another gone, and almost forgotten barn.  This one was at the far eastern edge of the clearing associated with the Dechow Farm on M-22.  Charles Olsen helped his son Everett build it.  The site of this barn can now just barely be recognized, as a flat piece of ground (See the Everett Olsen Farm map).  This view of it is from the back of the field east of the Dechow Farm, looking north  across M-22 to the hills of Port Oneida.  The clearing above and to the left of the barn is the Martin Basch Farm on Baker Road.

Jack Barratt remembers a fishing outing on the shoal north of Pyramid Point with Everett—“One time we were lifting in the fall.  Everett Olsen was with us, Nels (Olsen) and I... and a northeaster came up and we had to drop the nets overboard and take off for shore...Nels could skull (work a single long oar from a notch in the back).  Of course I was an experienced rower, having been in the Coast Guard; and Everett was just a land-lubber. He had no idea even how to row. In these seas he'd go to dip his oar, and he wouldn't get it in the water even, and he'd go over backwards in the bottom of the boat.  I remember Nels saying, "Listen! Watch Jack, you damn land-lubber, you!...We headed right for Pyramid. We didn't try to come down here, so we could get to shore as soon as possible. And when we got on the beach we just fell on our faces on the sand and recuperated."

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